This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figures Of Speech – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figures Of Speech Quiz 10 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 2. Identify the figures of speech1. Variety is the spice of life. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Pun. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. What is the figure of speech in the sentence:'The classroom was a zoo during the break.' A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 4. The alligator's teeth were white daggers. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 5. Opportunity knocks at the door but once. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 6. Which of the following is a pun? A) Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. B) She has a heart of gold. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. 7. In the sentence 'The world is a stage', what figure of speech is being used? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 8. I've been to the dentist many times so I know the drill. A) Irony. B) Euphemism. C) Hyperbole. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pun. 9. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:'The thunder grumbled like an old man.' A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 10. What is the figure of speech called when you give an object human qualities? A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 11. What is the figure of speech in which nonhuman or nonliving things are spoken about as if they were human? A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Apostrphe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. ..... starts comparison with as and like A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. I am so hungry I could eat a horse.This is an example of which literary device? A) Allusion. B) Consonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 14. ..... is repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of the word. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 15. A figure of speech is ..... A) A familiar expression. B) A non-literal way of saying something. C) What the author literally means. D) Something only writers use. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A non-literal way of saying something. 16. "The Earth mourn when Covid killed millions of its people." This is an example of what figure of speech? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 17. The MOO cow's tail is a peice of rope all raveled out were it grows. A) Hyperbole. B) , metaphor. C) Personification,. D) Alliteration. E) Simile,. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) , metaphor. 18. A figure of speech that utilizes extreme exaggeration to emphasize a certain quality or feature. A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 19. Each blade of grass was a tiny bayonet pointed firmly at our bare feet A) , metaphor,. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole,. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) , metaphor,. 20. '' children will come flocking to my shop and I will feed them poisoned sweets ( ..... ) and wipe them all out like weasels" isan example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 21. No matter how much you push the outside of the envelope, it will still be stationary. A) Pun. B) Euphemism. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pun. 22. Choose the definition of:Hyperbole A) Word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another. B) Comparison using extreme exaggeration. C) Giving an animal or object human characteristics. D) The use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comparison using extreme exaggeration. 23. The field is as green as an emerald stone. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 24. Click on the METAPHOR A) Elegant and casual. B) Still felt like a stranger living in a very strange place. C) I'd hear of Prada ( ) and Louis Vuitton ( ) and maybe even Gucci ( ). But I sure didn't own a single stitch of it. D) Ikea, the postcollege apartment mecca; the wooden behemoth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ikea, the postcollege apartment mecca; the wooden behemoth. 25. Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:The ballerina was a swan, gliding across the stage. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 26. Give an example of personification. A) The wind whispered through the trees. B) The sun is shining brightly. C) The car drove down the road. D) The cat meowed at the door. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The wind whispered through the trees. 27. We go together like peanut butter and jelly. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 28. Which figure of speech is the author using?"The sack fell into the river with a splash" A) Onomatopoeia. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 29. "I must be cruel to be kind"-Shakespeare (Hamlet) A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 30. The barbarians broke though the barricade. *Choose the correct figure of speech. A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesFigures Of Speech Quiz 1Figures Of Speech Quiz 2Figures Of Speech Quiz 3Figures Of Speech Quiz 4Figures Of Speech Quiz 5Figures Of Speech Quiz 6Figures Of Speech Quiz 7Figures Of Speech Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books